Lee Strobel, former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, is a New YorkTimes bestselling author whose books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Leeearned a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and was awarded a FordFoundation fellowship to study at Yale Law School, where he received a Master ofStudies in Law degree. He was a journalist for fourteen years at the Chicago Tribune andother newspapers, winning Illinois’ top honors for investigative reporting (which heshared with a team he led) and public service journalism from United PressInternational. Lee also taught First Amendment Law at Roosevelt University. A formeratheist, he served as a teaching pastor at three of America’s largest churches. Lee andhis wife, Leslie, have been married for more than fifty years and live in Texas. Theirdaughter, Alison, and son, Kyle, are also authors.